But what is the good of talking about such a thing?
It is all nonsense.

Beatrice must have been thinking of some other Geoffrey--or it was an accident of something.

Why, Mr.Davies, if you for one moment really believed that dear Beatrice could be guilty of such a shameless thing as to carry on a flirtation with a married man, would you have asked her to marry you?
Would you still think of asking such a woman as she must be to become your wife ?" "I don't know; I suppose not," he said doubtfully.
"You suppose not.

I know you better than you know yourself.

You would rather never marry at all than take such a woman as she would be proved to be.